Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1997
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
• Procedures for transferring the Fortuna utca exhibition area offered to the Stamp Museum continue according to the curious system of tenant selection and letting prevalent in Budapest’s First District. • Roof renovation and retiling of the Balatonszemes Postal Museum were completed. • Modernization of the heating system (with the installation of gas) began at the Nagyvázsony Postal Museum. • The Fiscal and Financial Inspection Office transferred to the Foundation’s account the sum of 54,390 forints. This came from the anonymous taxpayers who chose to assign one per cent of their income tax to the Foundation. • A full inventory of the Foundation’s assets was completed. Regulations and statutes • An amendment to the Deed of Foundation was drawn up and registered. • A review of the museums’ regulations for collection handling and recording was completed. The new guidelines will be distributed through the house printing press. • New directives were issued in the Foundation’s museums concerning property protection, fire protection, inventories, and the loan of museum objects and documents, along with some other rules of less importance. Applications for funding • A non-returnable grant of 5 million forints was received to produce a CD-ROM on the history of radio broadcasting, after a competitive application to the Telecommunications Fund. • A competitive funding application was made to the Museums Department of the Ministry of Culture and Public Education, for preparing installations for the Fortuna utca stamp exhibition. A grant of 0.3 million forints was obtained. • An application was entered for the competition advertised by the Hungarian Millenary Memorial Commission to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1848-9 Revolution and War of Independence. A grant of 1 million forints towards mounting the exhibition ‘Letters of 1848’ was awarded. Staffing and conditions of work • As a result of staff turnover, four recent graduates started their careers at the Foundation’s museums. • An improvement in working conditions and overcrowding was obtained by acquiring new tenancies in the headquarters building. • Thirteen members of staff obtained certificates after attending a computer course at Budapest Technical University. • The four new staff members and three members of the Stamp Museum staff attended a computer course at the Postal Training Centre. 245
